United State Best Tourist Places

United State Best Tourist Places

Queens, New York

Queens, New York’s largest borough, is also quickly becoming its hippest, but most travelers haven't clued in… yet. With microbreweries springing up, new boutique hotels, a reinvented seaside at Rockaway, a world-class art scene, and a truly global food culture, 2015 is the year to try Queens.Nowhere is the image of New York as the global melting pot truer than Queens. Browse New York’s biggest Chinatown in Flushing, shop for brilliantly colored saris in Jackson Heights, and inhale the heady aromas of coffee and hookahs in Astoria. The incomparable array of world cuisines makes Queens a destination for food lovers from all parts of New York City.
For your art fix, ogle the new upgrades to the Queens Museum and the Museum of the Moving Image, look for the new Emerging Artists Festival (conceptionevents.com) held in Long Island City, and stroll Astoria’s new 24-block arts district (kaufmanartsdistrict.org). If you prefer sand and surf to paint and canvas, head to Rockaway. Don’t miss the prime eating and drinking scene that has popped up around the boardwalk – this is no cruddy carnival food: think succulent fish tacos, wood-fired pizzas, and wine bars.

Western South Dakota

With a combination of vast natural beauty, quirky small-town charm, Native American cultural sites, and some famously larger-than-life presidential noggins carved into a mountain, it’s hard to find anywhere that looks more like the America of one’s imagination than Western South Dakota. 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup, a chance for cowboys and cowgirls to show their stuff as they move the park’s 1400 buffalo to their winter grazing territory. The Oglala Sioux and National Park Service are working to create the first tribal national park in the southern Badlands, with the aim of bringing buffaloes back to the grasslands where they roamed long before humans settled the area.
An even larger and noisier herd is gathering in 2015 for the 75th anniversary of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, the largest annual meeting of motorcycle enthusiasts in the world. Over 500,000 people gather each August, and the 2015 rally is the perfect excuse to channel your Easy Rider and head out on a motorcycle road trip.

New Orleans, Louisiana

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans’ future was far from certain. A decade later, it's clear: The Big Easy is back and thriving. With a mix of refurbished history and new upstarts, the city has a raft of fresh options for travelers – all uniquely New Orleans. In a region that has always prided itself on its local culinary and cocktail traditions, New Orleans hasn’t lost a beat. New Orleans chefs shone at the James Beard awards this year and bars like Twelve Mile Limit are pushing deep into craft cocktail territory making spins on classics, using locally produced products such as old New Orleans Rum and Huhu's Ginger Brew. After dinner and a drink, head to St Claude Avenue for the latest and most eclectic nightlife, from cabaret to gypsy jazz, punk rock, and bounce, New Orleans' homegrown hip-hop dance music.
New Orleans’ love for the spirit of celebration is triumphantly on display every weekend (except during the height of summer) in Second Lines (wwoz.org), community parades put on by neighborhood Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, and their associated brass bands, that march through the city.

Colorado River region

Ever dreamed of rafting down the Colorado River? With a controversial proposal for large-scale development at the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers – with hotels, a gondola, and more – not to mention diminishing rainfall, and ever increasing flyover traffic from sightseeing tours, now is the time. Some 140 years since John Wesley Powell shared his account of the first river descent, the trip down the longest stretch of navigable river in the US has become one of the iconic US adventure travel experiences – and one that might not last forever. Starting in its namesake Colorado, the river is born as a trickle in Rocky Mountain National Park, a hiker’s paradise. In Utah, it runs through Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park. Located between the two, the city of Moab is the go-to hub for desert adventures, with legendary mountain biking, canyon hikes, and river floats. In Arizona, the 280-mile stretch from Lee’s Ferry to Lake Mead through the Grand Canyon features 98 rated rapids, sandy beaches and ancient ruins. The National Park Service restricts the number of people allowed on the water here, so rafters can experience the winding course in relative solitude.
Flagstaff, often treated as a pit stop on the way to the Grand Canyon, is worth a fresh look with its Flagstaff-Grand Canyon Ale Trail for wandering beer lovers and, as the first city to be designated an International Dark Sky City, lots of stargazing options.

North Conway, New Hampshire

If you find yourself in New England, and two roads diverge in a yellow wood, take the one that leads to North Conway, the picturesque village celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2015 along with several neighboring villages. North Conway is quintessential New England, with covered bridges, quaint B&Bs and lazy canoe rides. In autumn, when the town is ablaze with color, visitors can take in the dramatic foliage either on the famed Kancamagus Highway or rail fans can hop aboard the Conway Scenic Railway. Once you’ve had your fill of apple cider donuts and maple syrup, North Conway will help you work it off: it also has New England’s best skiing, miles of hiking trails, and premier climbing destinations in the White Mountains. Never rock climbed before? No worries – North Conway is the perfect place to learn the ropes. Pros scramble for the cliff face of Cathedral Ledge, but local outfitter International Mountain Equipment (ime-usa.com) welcomes newcomers with instruction and popular summer climbing camps for kids.

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History of New York City

History of New York City

The cultural and financial capital of the USA, if not the world, New York City is an adrenaline-charged, history-laden place that holds immense romantic appeal for visitors. Its past is visible in the tangled lanes of Wall Street and tenements of the Lower East Side; meanwhile, towering skyscrapers serve as monuments of the modern age. Street life buzzes round the clock and shifts markedly from one area to the next. The waterfront, redeveloped in many places, and the landscaped green spaces – notably Central Park – give the city a chance to catch its breath. Iconic symbols of world culture – the neon of Times Square, the sculptures at Rockefeller Center – always seem just a stone’s throw away. For raw energy, dynamism and social diversity, you’d be hard-pressed to top it; simply put, there’s no place quite like it.

New York City comprises the central island of Manhattan and the four outer boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. Manhattan, to many, is New York; certainly, this is where you’re likely to stay and spend most of your time. Though you could spend weeks here and still barely scratch the surface, there are some key attractions and pleasures that you won’t want to miss. These include the different ethnic neighbourhoods, like Chinatown, and the more artsy concentrations of Soho and the East and West villages. Of course, there is also the celebrated architecture of Midtown and the Financial District, as well as many fabulous museums. In between sightseeing, you can eat just about anything, at any time, cooked in any style; you can drink in any kind of company; and enjoy any number of obscure movies. The more established arts – dance, theatre and music – are superbly presented. For the avid consumer, the choice of shops is almost numbingly exhaustive.

Manhattan is a hard act to follow, though Brooklyn is a worthy rival: there’s the ragged glory of Coney Island, the trim brownstones of Brooklyn Heights, the foodie destinations in South Brooklyn and the hip nightlife of Williamsburg. The rest of the outer boroughs also have their draws, namely the innovative museums of Long Island City and Astoria, both in Queens; and the renowned Bronx Zoo and adjacent botanical gardens in the Bronx. Last but not least, a free trip on the Staten Island Ferry is a sea-sprayed, refreshing good time.

Brief history

The first European to see Manhattan Island, then inhabited by the Lenape, was the Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazano, in 1524. Dutch colonists established the settlement of New Amsterdam exactly one hundred years later. The first governor, Peter Minuit, was the man who famously bought the island for a handful of trinkets. Though we don’t know for sure who “sold” it (probably a northern branch of the Lenni Lenape), the other side of the story was that the concept of owning land was utterly alien to Native Americans – they had merely agreed to support Dutch claims to use the land. By the time the British laid claim to the area in 1664, the heavy-handed rule of governor Peter Stuyvesant had so alienated its inhabitants that the Dutch relinquished control without a fight.

Renamed New York, the city prospered and grew, its population reaching 33,000 by the time of the American Revolution. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 facilitated trade farther inland, spurring the city to become the economic powerhouse of the nation, the base later in the century of tycoons such as Cornelius Vanderbilt and financiers like J.P. Morgan. The Statue of Liberty arrived from France in 1886, a symbol of the city’s role as the gateway for generations of immigrants, and the early twentieth century saw the sudden proliferation of Manhattan’s extraordinary skyscrapers, which cast New York as the city of the future in the eyes of an astonished world.

Almost a century later, the events of September 11, 2001, which destroyed the World Trade Center, shook New York to its core. Yet the Financial District bounced back with a new array of glitzy skyscrapers (as well as some moving memorials) to reassert the neighbourhood’s preeminence. It was hit again, along with many low-lying waterfront areas, by 2012’s destructive Hurricane Sandy, but the city is well on its way to recovering from that blow too.

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Most popular Tourist places in Ecuador

Most popular Tourist places in Ecuador

Cotopaxi
One of the things that Ecuador is most famous for is tis volcanoes. Cotopaxi is the second-highest mountain peak in the country, and it is also a beautiful snow-covered volcano. It features one of the few glaciers that are located along the equator. It is very near Quito, which makes it a great day trip for visitors who want to explore the volcano up close.

Quilotoa
This beautiful crater lake is set high in the Andes. The lake was formed when a volcano blew its top more than 800 years ago. The lake is more than 250 meters deep, and it holds stunningly beautiful water. The color shifts between the most eye-catching blues and greens as the sun changes angles along its surface.

The Basilica of the National Vow
Visitors to Quito have to see this amazing cathedral. It is the largest neo-Gothic cathedral in the Western Hemisphere, and this is true despite the fact that the cathedral has never been finished. The local legend says that the completion of the cathedral will bring about the end of the world.

El Panecillo
Much like the statue of Christ the Redeemer sits overlooking Rio de Janeiro, El Panecillo stands watch overlooking Quito. This volcanic hill overlooking Quito’s Old Town features a statue of the Virgin Mary at its summit. The statue is very unique. It is one of the only representations of the Virgin Mary to feature angel wings. It was constructed of more than 7,000 separate aluminum pieces and stands 45 meters tall.

Malecon 2000
Guayaquil is a city of youthful energy, and Malecon 2000 is the beating heart of its activity. This vibrant riverwalk offers the finest art, museums, food and atmosphere in the country. This is a great place to have a world-class meal and enjoy some shopping while in Ecuador.

Cajas National Park
This is a stunningly beautiful place that features more than 250 lakes for visitors to explore. It is also home to many varieties of plants and animals, including one of the most biodiverse collections of spice plants on the planet.

 Baños
Baños is one of the most amazing attractions in the country. This town set high up in the Andes is surrounded by things to do. There are lots of adventure activities like white water rafting, mountain climbing, hiking and hang gliding that visitors can try while they are in Baños. When they need to relax, Baños is home to many mud baths and hot springs to melt their tension away.

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Travel Sledding Hills in North America

Travel Sledding Hills in North America

Firecracker Hill 
This ski town is known for it’s awesome powder, incredible resorts and laid back feel but skiing just isn’t the only thing you can do here. The town may not have an official sledding park but one local hill is where to go to get your sled on. On the southern side of Telluride Town Park lies Firecracker Hill, follow the orange cones that the city puts out to mark the walking path to the hill. Don’t worry if you don’t have own your sled, the Telluride Nordic Center will rent you one for just a few bucks a day. You will find a mix of locals and visitors at this hill, riding anything from GT snow racers to saucers to mini snowboards. Obey the signs, recognize this is avalanche country and slide down this awesome hill in the ski town of Telluride.

St Andrews Heights Toboggan Hill 
This hill is known for it’s massiveness, incredible speed and downhill length. It has been tempting daredevil sledders for years. Located in the St. Andrews neighborhood, to reach this hill park in the Community Hall lot and then make your way to the top. A quick warning, it is a heavy hike to the top and be prepared if you have younger ones to pull them most of the way. To understand how big this hill is let’s use statistics. It has a run of about 150m, a drop of 17m and then a run out of 100m. That is a lot of hill to come down, and a lot to go back up. The end of the run is separated from the road by a fence to keep sliders safe. Expect to see a ton of people using this hill in the winter time, including junior snowboarders who practice here before hitting the big slopes.

Grand Mesa Old Powderhorn, Grand Junction, Colorado
It is referred to as “Old Powderhorn” by locals and it part of the old Mesa Creek Ski Area, located about three miles past Powderhorn Ski Resort. The parking area is located on the south side of the road and once you have bundled up and got your sled ready, its time to head up the trail head. There are plenty of trees to avoid coming down and the ride can be described as a wind-burning, adrenaline pumping, heart-stopping kind of ride. Expect the tiniest of snowdrifts to send you airborne and we recommend wearing your thickest snowsuit. Best for older kids and adults as there are plenty of trees that pose a threat of crashing into. Or at least bring a sled that you can steer.

Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum 
Head to Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood where Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum is located, offering 281 acres of exotic trees and flowering shrubs, which in the winter is host to an abundance of awesome sledding hills. Peter’s Hill has to be the favorite here as it offers incredible views from the top and no trees to contend with on the way down, making it safe for all ages. It also boasts the highest and longest slope in the area. The steep Weld Hill is the favorite amongst daredevils as it offers a ride of 350 feet long with parts that are at a 60-degree slope. We suggest hanging onto your hat as you race down these hills.

Mount Royal Park
This Montreal park is popular all year round but really comes alive in the winter thanks to all the visitors that take part in sledding down the hills, whether on rented tubes or sleds of their own. For decades this has been the place to take part in winter fun and the slope at the corner of Cote-Ste-Catherine and Parc looks tame from afar but in fact offers an incredible speedy and bumpy ride. Families and people of all ages flock to this hill with tubes, crazy carpets and even traditional wooden sleds. Straw barriers keep riders from going into the streets and there are even washrooms and a cafeteria on-site so you can warm those hands and grab a snack.

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Tourism Trends

Tourism Trends 

Crowdsourcing Luxury Hotels
Traditionally, the construction of hotels has been financed by banks and investments, but the luxury hotel segment has been increasingly turning away from these sources of financing toward a new option: crowdsourcing. With a potentially long lead time on funding, individual luxury hotels with unique features are finding that appealing directly to the people interested in what they have to offer enables them to secure financing that might be denied by more traditional routes. Through crowdfunding, individuals interested in different hotel concepts can directly invest in the development of these new properties. One example is the Prodigy Network crowdfunding real estate firm, which is currently planning to construct a 194-unit space in downtown New York. The hotel will offer space for both short- and long-term stays.

Smart Travel
The advent of wearable tech is ushering in a new era of travel and tourism, according to some industry reports. While apps have provided some customization and reviews from individual travelers have offered tourists more and more information about the best places to see, eat and sleep, apps like TripAdvisor for the Apple Watch can send push notifications to users, with information about nearby attractions, highly rated restaurants in the user’s vicinity and more. Google Now also offers suggestions, using geo-localization to keep its suggestions relevant to the user, while also taking note of the user’s past behavior. The result will be an increase in customization that makes travel suited to your individual preferences—which, in theory, should make your trips all the more enjoyable.

Growing the Sharing Economy in China
Sharing-economy companies like Uber and Airbnb have become popular with travelers in the West (although they’re not without controversy). In China, there’s also growing interest in the sharing economy styled by such Western companies, although there’s a definite preference for the home-grown; 2014 saw a rise in the number of Chinese companies following the sharing-economy model, a trend that continued in 2015. Local media sites like Weibo and WeChat are used for reviews, while Tujia offers short-term rentals of luxury apartments. Ride-sharing and private rental companies are also on the rise in the country. That said, these start-ups have faced challenges and a shaky start, but it seems as though 2016 will be a year of exponential growth for the sharing economy. Travelers to China can expect to find more of these services and to hear more about them as well.

Iran Opens Up
Since the revolution in the late 1970s, Iran has been fairly closed to the rest of the world. The country has been especially hostile toward the West, meaning that tourism has been limited for nearly 40 years. Global relations with Iran have been improving over the past couple of years, in part due to a call for increased cooperation among Middle Eastern countries. Although Iran receives millions of visitors each year, foreign travel companies are now ready to enter the market, thus opening it up to increasing external tourism and potentially making the country one of the must-see locations for 2016. With 19 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, there’s plenty of reason for tourists to head to Iran, the seat of the former Persian Empire. Other attractions include over a dozen ski resorts and important pilgrimage sites for Muslims.

Solo Travel
Traveling alone is nothing new. What’s new is that more and more people are interested in traveling alone—and that the people most interested in going solo are millennials. An MMGY Global Survey of American adults found that 37% of millennial respondents planned to travel by themselves in July 2015, an increase of 5% from 2014. Some suggest that millennials travel more than their parents and grandparents, simply because travel is more affordable and accessible than it was in the past. While it’s certainly true that travel is almost a way of life among younger generations, partially because of affordability and access, that doesn’t explain why so many go it alone. The leading reason for solo travel is that it’s quite simply easier to plan a trip for 1 than for 2 or more.

Americans Take More Time Off
Many U.S. corporations have long held the idea that working harder is a good thing. Growing evidence, however, suggests that not only are vacations important for workers, they’re also beneficial for companies from a financial standpoint. Unused vacation days create a financial burden should an employee (or a bunch of employees) suddenly decide to “cash” in on their paid days off. Many companies are also finding that workers who have paid time off are more motivated and loyal—which means better productivity and creativity while they are in the office. The result is that more companies are encouraging their employees to ensure they take all of their vacation days, and to take time off with some regularity. Some companies, like Netflix and Virgin Group, even offer unlimited paid holidays to their employees.

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Beautiful Small Town In USA

Beautiful Small Town In USA

Vernal
Jurassic park meets the Wild West. The land around vernal is rich with fossils from the period which began about 200 million years ago and has become the most popular prehistoric period in contemporary imagination. The Carnegie Quarry contains some 1500 actual dinosaur bones embedded in the rock. The towering pink dinosaur that greets you on arrival indicates the town’s main industry. They even discovered remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur here in 2010. There are also significant thousand-year-old petroglyphs from indigenous people as well as examples of nineteenth century homesteads. The rugged terrain around town is scenic in the extreme with three state parks with exceptional white water rafting.

Homer, Alaska 
What dinos are to Vernal, the Northern Lights Are to Homer. Once referred to as “As far as you can go without a passport”, Homer lies just below the 60th parallel, sometimes shorthand for the beginning of the real Arctic. Fall is the peak season for the Aurora Borealis but there are also a few more things to do in Homer when the Lights go out. Art galleries. The Homer Spit is not a contest but a narrow strip of land jutting into Kachemak Bay with tourist diversions. It is serious halibut fishing and a spectacular state park with glaciers, trails and kayaking which the Travel Alaska website suggests “to escape the bustle of Homer” to the extent a remote town of 5,000 can bustle.

Stowe, Vermont 
Stowe is a downhill skiing superpower but it has diversified into an interesting year round destination. Near the Canadian border the nearest big city is Montreal. Among its oft-mentioned claims to fame is a resort run by the Von Trapp family of Sound of Music Fame celebrating its 50th anniversary as winner of the Oscar for Best Picture. It is also just 10 miles from the ice cream sacred site of the original Ben and Jerry’s, complete with the graveyard for old flavors. There is an active arts scene in Stowe and some serious chefs have serious kitchens. Pretty much a ‘something for everyone’ kind of place in a small, picturesque alpine package.

Custer, South Dakota 
For the scent and sound of the old west, head to Custer for the annual Buffalo Round Up at Custer State Park, which really is a home where the buffalo roam. They are transitioned to winter grazing land each fall and would-be cowpokes can help, or go to the Arts Festival chili cook-off, or for those born to be wild, the 75th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. But beyond anniversary activities Custer is blessed with superb nearby attractions, maybe some of the greatest in the country. Mount Rushmore, Badlands National Park, Black Hills National Park and the iconic Devil’s Tower National Monument (think Close Encounters of the Third Kind.) The town dates back to 1874 and has buildings from the 1880’s but still has only about 2,000 inhabitants. And yes of course it was named after Lt. General George Armstrong Custer.

Thibodaux, Louisiana
2015 brought two somber anniversaries for the Pelican State. A decade since Hurricane Katrina and five years on from the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill, from which the fishery in nearby Thibodaux has yet to recover fully. Over a thousand displaced people from New Orleans rode it out in Thibodaux. Nevertheless, the town remains a center of Cajun history and culture. Laurel Valley village shows what’s left of the 19th century sugar plantation. There are bayou tours and the Acadian Cultural Center to take in the region’s colorful past and present. Donner-Peltier Distillers is a craft distiller that makes a series of rums named after Rougaroux, the legendary Cajun werewolf said to be stoppable only by a stack of 13 pennies because his 12 fingers can’t cope with that many. Hence the Rougaroux 13 Pennies Praline rum for your onsite tasting pleasure.

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Tourist Attractions in Atlanta

Tourist Attractions in Atlanta

Atlanta Botanical Garden
This garden sits adjacent to Piedmont Park, and has a number of different sections, each highlighting a different region, plant, or animal type. These include a Japanese garden, a rose garden, woodland areas and a children’s garden. One of the main highlights of the botanical garden is the indoor Fuqua Conservatory which hosts a range of tropical, desert and subtropical plants and animals. The nation’s largest orchid collection, tropical birds, turtles and poison dart frogs. For those who are not afraid of heights, the woodland park has a large canopy walk that allows guests to explore the treetops. The botanical garden often hosts art exhibits and other charity events. The most notable of these was a display of the glass work of Dale Chihuly in 2004, and brought half a million guests to the gardens.

Fox Theatre
Originally planned as a Moorish architecture Shrine temple, the Fox Theatre ultimately developed as a lavish movie theater. It later became a performing arts theater, and continues to host the Atlanta Ballet, traveling Broadway events, and some music concerts. The theatre is a draw even for those who aren’t going to see a show, as the combined Egyptian and Islamic architecture creates a spectacle that is worth taking a tour. The theater inside is fashioned like an Arabian courtyard, complete with a twinkling crystal starry sky. There is also a large ballroom designed after the temple of Ramses II, and the mezzanine for the women’s’ restroom has King Tut’s throne and little sphinxes on the makeup tables.

World of Coca-Cola
For anyone who has ever wondered what Coca-Cola tastes like in every nation of the world, this is the place to go. One of the top attractions in Atlanta, a new museum was revamped and relocated in 2007 to house a larger collection of company paraphernalia. Sixty years of jingles, ads dating back to the 1800’s, and a 4-D movie experience are just a few of the things to experience here. One of the biggest draws here is the updated tasting room that not only allows guests to discover the preferred formula versions from different parts of the world, as well as rare local drinks via their customized freestyle machine.

Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Site
This historic site includes several buildings, including the boyhood home of this civil rights leader, as well as the church where his father, and later King himself first came to preach. The firehouse that was once a main community center in the sixties, a civil rights walk of fame, and the “I Have a Dream” international world peace rose garden are also a part of this historic park. Opposite the visitor center, a large mural depicts scenes in Dr. Martin Luther King’s life. The site hosts several large events, particularly during Martin Luther King day and Black History Month.

Centennial Olympic Park
Created for the 1996 Summer Olympics that was hosted in this city, Olympic Park continues to be a tourist draw every year. Located downtown between the Aquarium and the CNN center, the park has several fun features. An interactive fountain of Olympic rings is synchronized with lights, water jets and music. This is surrounded by a collection of the flags of all of the host nations of the previous Olympics. A large, air-conditioned Ferris wheel and large lawn that hosts a summer outdoor concert series are just some of the other features of this historic location of athletic excellence.

Piedmont Park
This park in the Northeastern Atlanta near Midtown began life as an out-of-the-city gentleman’s farm owned by a doctor named Benjamin Walker. It went through a series of owners, ultimately ending up the property of the Piedmont Exposition Company. The park has had several architects of importance working on different parts, most notably Olmstead of Central Park fame, who created many pathways still in use today. It also includes a large basketball complex, and was home of Atlanta’s first team in the early twentieth century. A large fishing lake, playscape, and large lawn that is host to many concerts are just a few of the other offerings here.

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Most Beautiful places in United States

Most Beautiful places in United States

1. Monte Sano State Park in Alabama
2. Mount McKinley (or Denali) in Alaska
3. The horseshoe of the Colorado River in Arizona
4. Whitaker Point in Arkansas
5. Yosemite Park in California
6. The Maroon Bells in Colorado
7. The Young’s Pond in Connecticut
8. Port Mahon in Delaware
9. The natural reserve of cypress in Florida
10. The Wormsloe Historic Site in Georgia
11. Waipio Valley in Hawaii
12. Little Redfish Lake in Idaho
13. Blackjack Road, Illinois
14. The Cub Lake in Indiana
15. Clayton County, Iowa
16. Cimarron National Grasslands, Kansas
17. The Indiana Fort mountain in Kentucky
18. Oak Alley Plantation, Lousiana
19. Portland Head Lighthouse in Maine
20. Exit 52 of Route 40 in Maryland
21. Houghtonville in Massachusetts
22. Lake Michigan to the clouds
23. Minnehaha Falls Minnesota
24. Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Missisippi
25. Lake Taneycomo in Missouri
26. The Glacier National Park in Montana
27. Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park
28. Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
29. The White Mountains in New Hampshire
30. Silver Falls Stray in New Jersey
31. The Manzano Mountains of New Mexico
32. Central Park in New York
33. The Smoky Mountains of North Carolina
34. Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota
35. Ash Cave in Ohio
36. The Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma
37. Lower Kentucky Falls in Oregon
38. Pine Creek Gorge in Pennsylvania
39. Portsmouth, Rhode Island
40. Landsford Channel, South Carolina
41. The Badlands National Park in South Dakota
42. Mount Cammerer in Tennessee
43. The Wild basin, Hamilton, Texas
44. Thor’s hammer in Utah
45. Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont
46. Pembroke Virginia
47. Tipsoo Grasslands, Washington State
48. The Hawks Nest Bridge in West Virginia
49. The Rock of Gibraltar in Wisconsin
50. The Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming

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United States Newspapers list

United States Newspapers list 

• The New York Times (New York)
• Daily News (New York, New York)
• Washington Post (Washington DC)
• New York Post (New York)
• Los Angeles Times (California, Los Angeles)
• USA Today (National, Arlington, Virginia)
• The Washington Times (Washington DC)
• Greenwich News (Connecticut, Greenwich)
• Wall Street Journal (New York, New York)
• Chicago Tribune (Illinois)
• Boston Herald (Massachusetts)
• Bessemer News (Alabama, Bessemer)
• Sussex County News (Delaware, Georgetown)
• Arizona Republic (Arizona, Phoenix)
• Blount County News (Alabama, Blount County)
• Colleton County News (South Carolina, Smoaks)
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia)
• Sylacauga News (Alabama, Sylacauga)
• The Dallas Morning News (Texas, Dallas)
• Anchorage Daily News (Alaska, Anchorage)
• The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)
• The Miami Herald (Florida)
• Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania)
• Houston Chronicle (Texas, Houston)
• The Seattle Times (Washington)
• Detroit News (Michigan)
• Detroit Free Press (Michigan)
• Chicago Sun-Times (Illinois, Cook)
• Arizona Daily Star (Arizona, Tucson)
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania)
• Sierrawatch (Wisconsin)
• Baltimore Sun (Maryland, Baltimore)
• Hawaii News (Hawaii, Honolulu)
• Atlanta News (Georgia)
• AM New York (New York, New York City)
• Charleston Gazette (West Virginia, Charleston)
• Denver Post (Colorado)
• St Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri, Saint Louis)
• The Advocate (Louisiana, Baton Rouge)
• Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico, Albuquerque)
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
• Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun (Nevada, Las Vegas)
• Las Vegas Sun (Nevada)
• Alaska Dispatch (Alaska)
• Ahora News (New Jersey)

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Unique History of united States

Unique History of united States

The date of the start of the history of the United States is a subject of constant debate among historians. Older textbooks start with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and emphasize the European background, or they start around 1600 and emphasize the American frontier. In recent decades American schools and universities typically have shifted back in time to include more on the colonial period and much more on the prehistory of the Native peoples.

Indigenous people lived in what is now the United States for thousands of years before European colonists began to arrive, mostly from England, after 1600. The Spanish had small settlements in Florida and the Southwest, and the French along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast. By the 1770s, thirteen British colonies contained two and a half million people along the Atlantic coast east of the Appalachian Mountains.

In the 1760s the British government imposed a series of new taxes while rejecting the American argument that any new taxes had to be approved by the people (see Stamp Act 1765). Tax resistance, especially the Boston Tea Party (1774), led to punitive laws (the Intolerable Acts) by Parliament designed to end self-government in Massachusetts. American Patriots (as they called themselves) adhered to a political ideology called republicanism that emphasized civic duty, virtue, and opposition to corruption, fancy luxuries and aristocracy.

All thirteen colonies united in a Congress that called on them to write new state constitutions. After armed conflict began in Massachusetts, Patriots drove the royal officials out of every colony and assembled in mass meetings and conventions. Those Patriot governments in the colonies unanimously empowered their delegates to Congress to declare independence. In 1776, Congress declared that there was a new, independent nation, the United States of America, not just a collection of disparate colonies. With large-scale military and financial support from France and military leadership by General George Washington, the American Patriots rebelled against British rule and succeeded in the Revolutionary War. The peace treaty of 1783 gave the new nation the land east of the Mississippi River (except Florida and Canada, and Spain disputed the Mississippi Territory until 1795) and confirmed Great Britain's recognition of the United States as a nation.

The central government established by the Articles of Confederation proved ineffectual at providing stability, as it had no authority to collect taxes and had no executive officer. Congress called a convention to meet secretly in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation. It wrote a new Constitution, which was adopted in 1789. In 1791, a Bill of Rights was added to guarantee inalienable rights. With Washington as the Union's first president and Alexander Hamilton his chief political and financial adviser, a strong central government was created. When Thomas Jefferson became president he purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the size of the United States. A second and final war with Britain was fought in 1812.

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Know about Central Park of United States

Know about Central Park of United States

Central Park is an urban park in middle-upper Manhattan, New York City. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States as well as one of the most filmed locations in the world.

It was established in 1857 on 778 acres (315 ha) of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, two soon-to-be famed national landscapers and architects, won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they titled the "Greensward Plan". Construction began the same year and the park's first area was opened to the public in the winter of 1858.[5] Construction continued during the American Civil War further south, and was expanded to its current size of 843 acres (341 ha) in 1873.

It was designated a National Historic Landmark (listed by the U.S. Department of the Interior and administered by the National Park Service) in 1962. The Park was managed for decades by the New York City Department of Recreation and Parks and is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the municipal government in a public-private partnership. The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that contributes 75 percent of Central Park's $65 million annual budget and is responsible for all basic care of the 843-acre park.

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United States all Tourist places List

United States all Tourist places List

Arizona

• Grand Canyon National Park

California

• Death Valley National Park
• Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles
• J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
• Warner Brothers Studio Tour, Burbank
• Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
• Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco Bay
• Alcatraz Prison, San Francisco Bay
• The Hearst Castle
• San Diego Air & Space Museum
• Yosemite National Park

Connecticut

• Mystic Seaport Maritime Museum
• USS Nautilus Submarine and Museum, Groton

Delaware

• Du Pont Nemours Mansion & Gardens, Wilmington
• Historical Society of Delaware Museums, Wilmington

Florida

• Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine
• NASA's Kennedy Space Center
• Florida Museum of Natural History
• Winter Estates of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, Fort Meyers

Georgia

• Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
• National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta 

Hawaii

• USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor

Illinois

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield
• Lincoln's Home, Springfield
• Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio, Oak Park

Indiana

• Abraham Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City

Louisiana

• National World War II Museum, New Orleans
• Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie

Maine

• Maine Maritime Museum, Bath
• Museums of Old York
• Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport

Maryland

• Antietam (Civil War) National Battlefield
• Fort McHenry National Monument
• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, Baltimore

Massachusetts

• The Freedom Trail, Boston
• Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum, Boston
• USS Constitution Ship "Old Ironsides," Boston
• USS Constitution Ship Museum, Boston
• The Paul Revere House, Boston
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Harvard University, Cambridge
• Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge
• Adams National Historic Site, Quincy
• Minute Man National Historic Park, Concord
• Historic Salem
• Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem
• Lowell National Historical Park
• Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge  (View Slideshow)
• Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester
• Historic Deerfield
• Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth  (View Slideshow)
• Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth
• Cape Cod National Seashore
• Battleship Cove, Fall River

Michigan

• Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn
• Gerald R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids

Mississippi

• Vicksburg National Military Park
• Shiloh National Military Park

Missouri

• Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Independence
• National World War I Museum, Kansas City

Nevada

• Hoover Dam

New Hampshire

• Museum of New Hampshire History, Concord

New Jersey

• Battleship USS New Jersey, Camden
• Morristown National Historical Park
• Thomas Edison National Historic Site, West Orange

New Mexico

• Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos
• National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque

New York

• Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York Harbor
• Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor
• Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York Harbor
• National September 11 Memorial & Museum
• South Street Seaport Museum, New York
• Empire State Building, New York
• American Museum of Natural History, New York
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, Hyde Park
• Martin Van Buren Estate, Kinderhook
• National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown
• West Point (U.S. Military Academy)
• Saratoga National Historical Park
• Fort Ticonderoga

North Carolina

• Guilford Courthouse, National Military Park
• Biltmore Estate, Home of the Vanderbilts
• Historic Latta Plantation, near Charlotte
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park

South Carolina

• Fort Sumter

Ohio

• United States Air Force Museum, near Dayton

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma City National Memorial

Oregon

• Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks

Pennsylvania

• Gettysburg Battlefield
• National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg
• Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
• Independence Hall, Philadelphia
• National Constitution Center, Philadelphia
• Valley Forge National Historic Park
• Pennsylvania Dutch Country
• Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Strasburg

Rhode Island

• Touro Synagogue, Newport
• Newport Mansions

North Dakota

• Theodore Roosevelt National Park
• Fort Union Trading Post
• Knife River Indian Villages

South Dakota

• Mount Rushmore National Memorial
• Badlands National Park
• Black Hills National Forest

Tennessee

• The Hermitage, Home of Andrew Jackson, near Nashville
• Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
• Shiloh National Military Park
• National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Texas

• The Alamo, San Antonio
• Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum, Austin
• NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston

Vermont

• Shelburne Museum, Shelburne
• Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock
• Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock

Virginia

• Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson
• Mount Vernon, Home of George Washington
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Jamestown
• Stratford Hall Plantation, Birthplace of Robert E. Lee
• Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond
• American Civil War Center, Richmond

Washington D.C.

• Washington D.C. Interactive Tourist Map
• The Lincoln Memorial
• Ford's Theater (site of President Lincoln's assassination)
• Smithsonian Museums
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• United States House of Representatives
• The White House
• Arlington National Cemetery
• National World War II Memorial
• Korean War Veterans Memorial
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Washington State

• Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks
• Museum of Flight, Seattle
• Future of Flight Aviation Center and Boeing Tour

Wyoming

• Yellowstone National Park

Other USA Tourist info

• National Trust Historic Sites
• Historic Hotels of America
• U.S. National Park Service Home Page
• Presidential Libraries

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Remarkable place Statue of Liberty

Remarkable place Statue of Liberty 

The Statue of Liberty  is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France.

The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad.

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. He may have been minded to honor the Union victory in the American Civil War and the end of slavery. Due to the troubled political situation in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.

The torch-bearing arm was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan from 1876 to 1882. Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened due to lack of funds. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World started a drive for donations to complete the project that attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar. The statue was constructed in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.

The statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901 and then by the Department of War; since 1933 it has been maintained by the National Park Service. The statue was closed for renovation for much of 1938. In the early 1980s, it was found to have deteriorated to such an extent that a major restoration was required. While the statue was closed from 1984 to 1986, the torch and a large part of the internal structure were replaced. After the September 11 attacks in 2001, it was closed for reasons of safety and security; the pedestal reopened in 2004 and the statue in 2009, with limits on the number of visitors allowed to ascend to the crown. The statue, including the pedestal and base, was closed for a year until October 28, 2012, so that a secondary staircase and other safety features could be installed; Liberty Island remained open. However, one day after the reopening, Liberty Island closed due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy in New York; the statue and island opened again on July 4, 2013. Public access to the balcony surrounding the torch has been barred for safety reasons since 1916.

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Do you know about United States?

Do you know about United States?

"United States of America", "America", "U.S.", and "USA" redirect here. For the landmass comprising North and South America, see the Americas. For other uses, see America (disambiguation), US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation) and United States (disambiguation).

The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major territories and various possessions. The 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C., are in central North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwestern part of North America and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. At 3.8 million square miles (9.842 million km2) and with over 320 million people, the country is the world's third or fourth-largest by total area and the third most populous. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The geography and climate of the United States are also extremely diverse, and the country is home to a wide variety of wildlife.

Paleo-Indians migrated from Eurasia to what is now the U.S. mainland at least 15,000 years ago, with European colonization beginning in the 16th century. The United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Disputes between Great Britain and the colonies led to the American Revolution. On July 4, 1776, as the colonies were fighting Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, delegates from the 13 colonies unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence. The war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by the Kingdom of Great Britain, and was the first successful war of independence against a European colonial empire. The country's constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, and ratified by the states in 1788. The first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties.

Driven by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, the United States embarked on a vigorous expansion across North America throughout the 19th century. This involved displacing American Indian tribes, acquiring new territories, and gradually admitting new states, until by 1848 the nation spanned the continent. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War ended legal slavery in the country.  By the end of that century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean, and its economy, driven in large part by the Industrial Revolution, began to soar. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a global military power. The United States emerged from World War II as a global superpower, the first country to develop nuclear weapons, the only country to use them in warfare, and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the world's sole superpower.

The United States is a developed country and has the world's largest national economy by nominal and real GDP, benefiting from an abundance of natural resources and high worker productivity. While the U.S. economy is considered post-industrial, the country continues to be one of the world's largest manufacturers. Accounting for 34% of global military spending and 23% of world GDP, it is the world's foremost military and economic power, a prominent political and cultural force, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations.

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